Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Everyone welcome back to the show. We've got a great guest today who's been making the

podcast rounds. Richard Reeves. Richard is a scholar at the Brookings

Institution. He's the author of a new book of boys and men, why the modern male is struggling,

why it matters and what to do about it. He's also the author of DreamHorters,

how the American upper level class is leaving everyone out in the dust, why that's a problem,

and what to do about it. What's so interesting about Richard's frame of these two topics,

class and obviously gender in terms of the new book that he has out, is he's able to talk about

them in ways that have nothing to do with scoring culture war points. Instead, it's just focused

on looking at the policy and empirical good-ridden outcomes that one could easily articulate

are a problem. Good way of summing up his thought. Under his framing, it seems as if our modern

labor market is set up to benefit men and our educational system is set up to benefit women.

That's not quite purposeful. It's complicated. There's a mix of structural and individual issues,

but Richard and I will get into that topic during the episode. Hope you all enjoy this conversation

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you take it to Lincoln Network. Hope to see those of you who purchase tickets out in Miami next week.

Hope you enjoy this episode.

Richard Reeves, welcome to the reallignment. Thank you for having me on the show.

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